Keep You Close, the title-track of the new album, can now be downloaded in the French iTunes Store and on eMusic.

(Source: dEUS-fr)

A new teaser for Keep You Close has been posted on Youtube. The first teaser can still be watched here.

Tom Barman compiled a  Ten Songs For A Succulent Summer for Q Magazine. In the article Tom says Balthazar will support dEUS during their autumn tour.

In an interview with Pure FM (in French) Tom talks a bit about the upcoming gigs. They will not really change their setlist, before the start of the Keep You Close-tour in October. So we can expect three of four new songs on the setlist until then.

They will rethink their live-shows for the new tour, since they're touring with more or less the same setlists for a couple of years now. Tom said that  Pukkelpop will be the end of an era and they're thinking about giving fans the chance to create the setlist for that gig. More info on this should become available the following weeks.



dEUS: l'interview de Tom Barman pour Pure FM by PureFMlaradio

The UK-version of Amazon already has short audio-snippets of all songs of Keep You Close. You'll find them over here.

And below is the tracklist with track-lenght

1.  Keep You Close (5:16) 
2. The Final Blast (4:39) 
3. Dark Sets In (4:53) 
4. Twice (We Survive) (4:33) 
5. Ghosts (4:36) 
6. Constant Now (3:48)
7. The End of Romance (4:38) 
8. Second Nature (4:03)
9. Easy (6:38)

total playing time: 43:04

A nice poster for the upcoming French tour.  Dates and presale-info can be found here.

As some of you have noticed, dEUS launched a brand new website today. So far, it only contains a news-section and the tourdates for the upcoming tour, but more content will be added soon. The site is available on www.deus.be

The url www.keepyouclose.com is forwarded to a page on the new website where you can see one of the teasers for the album.

The most interesting thing so far, is a new episode of the dEUS Podcast, looking back to the short tour the band did at the end of May.

dEUS now also has a Soundcloud-account. Guess what: you can listen to Constant Now over there. Enjoy!

dEUS - Constant Now by dEUSbe

Buy Constant Now at the Belgian or Dutch iTunes-store.

Constant Now is available at the Belgian and Dutch iTunes-store.

Tom talking about the new single on Studio Brussel this morning. He also says they had trouble with the mastering of the album.

You can listen to a snippet of the single here.

In an interview with French Virgin Radio Tom says they're planning to add some extra live tracks to the album release. Tom was apparently very happy with the Constant Now-version at Musilac this weekend.



(thx to Uoke Knäcke)

Focus Knack had a phonecall with Tom tonight. Here's what he told them.

• France and Germany will get Keep You Close as the first single
• Constant Now will be the second single in these country, when the album is released
• Tom will be the director for the video of Constant Now
• They will starting filming the video at the beginning of Augustus
• Two young Britains will make the video for Keep You Close (this one is fake)
• They will release a couple of EP's with non-album tracks by the end of this year

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 A small round-up on the upcoming release of the new dEUS-album:

• The album will be titled Keep You Close 
• The release is scheduled for September 20th (Europe) and October 3rd (UK)
• The album was produced by David Bottrill and his engineer Alan Nobel
• It was recorded in the dEUS-studio in Borgerhout
• The album contains 9 tracks: Keep You Close / The Final Blast / Dark Sets In / Twice / Ghosts / Constant Now / The End Of Romance / Second Nature / Easy
• Keep You Close will be released as a single in France (and here are the lyrics)
• Belgium will get Constant Now as single.  That song will make its radiodebut on July 19th at 08.30 hour on Studio Brussel. The artwork is over here.
• Keep You Close will be the last dEUS-album released on Universal in Belgium
• The album will already be released on PIAS Records outside Belgium
•  Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, The Gutter Twins, The Twilight Singers) sings on two songs of Keep You Close (one of them being Dark Sets In)
• The band has recorded more than 9 songs. A few other ones will be released a separate tracks the next months
• 3 songs that were played live the last years will probably in that case: I Gave Love, Paper Bones and Next Generation
• Peter Vermeersch is involved for some arrangements.
• CJ Bolland also collaborated on the album.
• The band will launch a new website soon on www.keepyouclose.com

Studio Brussel will air Constant Now for the first time tomorrow morning at 8.30 hour.

RTBF.be already released the artwork of the single.

Below is a live-version of the song, as performed in Trouw (Amsterdam) a couple of months ago.

1. Slow
2. Instant Street
3. Fell Off The Floor, Man
4. The Architect
5. Constant Now
6.  Nothing Really Ends
7.  Bad Timing
8. Dark Sets In
9. Suds & Soda

I just found this on www.aaamusic.co.uk: an article about Keep you close, including something that looks like tthe cover artwork.

A video has been uploaded to Youtube today. It presented by the uploader as the official video for Keep You Close. I checked with the dEUS-management  and this video is NOT the official video for the single.



(Source: dEUS-fr.net)

Last week, at the Pohoda-festival in Slovakia, Klaas joined Pulp on stage during Common People.



(Source: @piasrecordings)

Spanish webzine Crazy Minds reveals the tracklist of Keep You Close

1. Keep You Close
2. The Final Blast
3. Dark Sets In
4. Twice
5. Ghosts
6. Constant Now
7. The End Of Romance
8. Second Nature
9. Easy

(thx to elviejito on ISR)

A couple of UK webzines are reporting on the release of Keep You Close. However, they're mentioning October 3rd as the release date. Most probably, the album will be released in the UK a couple of weeks later then in mainland Europe.

Shout4Music has some interesting lines about the background of the album as well. Sit back and enjoy!

As the title suggests, ‘Keep You Close’ sees lead singer and lyricist Tom Barman react to ‘Vantage Point’ with a determination to return the band to a more personal lyrical style and a warmer musical approach. Whilst still immensely proud of ‘Vantage Point’, Tom felt that its follow up should move away from that album’s ‘very loud, in your face’ sound. Consequently, much of the focus of ‘Keep You Close’ has been to develop a sound that embraces a more organic and spacious dynamic. To aid this process, and in stark contrast to the studio bound writing approach of ‘Vantage Point’, the songs that make up ‘Keep You Close’ were road tested live at festivals throughout the writing and recording period and developed through live rehearsals within the studio to, in Tom’s words, ensure that they were ‘more mature when it came to recording them’.

A couple of songs of the gig at VPRO's Club Llow are available on the 3voor12-website. Watch them here. The first song (Slow) and the new song (Ghost) are missing.

Keep You Close, the title track of the new dEUS album, is track of the day on Magicrpm. It will be online for 24 hours. Click here to listen. It's the first high-quality version of the song, since the radiorip which popped up a couple of weeks ago.

dEUS will perform the Olympia Theatre in Dublin on October 12th. Tickets will go on sale starting this Friday July 15th via http://www.ticketmaster.ie/

1. Second Nature 
2. Slow 
3. Sun Ra
4. Fell Off The floor, man 
5. The architect 
6. Constant now 
7. Smokers reflect 
8. Instant street 
9. If you don't get 
10. Turnpike 
11. Ghost 
12. Nothing really ends 
13. Bad Timing
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14. Dark Sets In 
15. Pocket Revolution 
16. Favourite Game 
17. Roses 
18. Suds and Soda

(thx to Lovedeus)

In a Spanish interview, Klaas says they had nearly 30 songs ready for Keep You Close. Only 9 of them will make it to the album. A couple of other songs will be released separately.

1) Slow
2) Sun Ra
3) Fell off the Floor, Man
4) The Architect
5) Constant Now
6) Instant Street
7) If You Don't Get What You Want
8) Smokers Reflect
9) Ghosts
10) Bad Timing
11) Suds'n'Soda

thx to Nori

In an interview with French webzine Musiqueinfo.com Tom confirms that Keep You Close will be the single in France, while Constant Now will be the single in the rest of the world, except for Germany. It's not clear if Germany will also get Keep You Close.


Tom was surprised that the French affiliation of PIAS picked Keep You Close, a 6-minute song he didn't intend to be a single. Tom went back in the studio to record a radio-edit of the song.

A bunch of new tourdates has been announced today.

• 18/10/11 : Vega, Copenhagen (Denmark)
• 28/11/11 : Live Music Hall, Köln (Germany)
• 29/11/11 : Markthalle, Hamburg (Germany)
• 02/12/11 : Backstage Werk, Münich (Germany)

For ticket-info browser to the Tour-overview

dEUS will play the Koko club in London on October 11th. And according to Last.FM you can also catch the band at the Arena in Vienna on December 4th.

1. Sun Ra
2. Fell Off The Floor, Man
3. The Architect
4. Constant Now
5.  Instant Street
6. If You Don't Get What You Want
7. Theme From Turnpike
8. Nothing Really Ends
9. Bad Timing
10. Dark Sets In (New song)
11. Suds and Soda

A new dEUS-song was played during the Club Llow-session in Amsterdam. The song is titled Ghost and made its live debut yesterday evening.

1. Slow 
2. Instant Street 
3. Constant Now 
4. The Real Sugar
5. Ghost 
6. Morticiachair 
7. Bad Timing
8. Dark Sets In